Snow cutter and scraper



.(No Model.)

J. S. HOVEY. Snow Cutter and Scraper.

Patented June 21,1881.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. HOVEY, OF ROME, NEW YORK.

SNOW CUTTER AND SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 243,261, dated June 21, 1881. Application filed February 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. HovEY, a citizen of the United States, resident at Rome, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Snow Cutters and Scrapers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a representation of a longitudinal section of my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is a detail view.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for clearing off snow and ice from sidewalks vand other places.

The invention consists in the combination of a cutter with a scraper, whereby the snow and ice are first loosened and then removed, as hereinafter described and explained.

In the annexed drawings, A A are two shoes, like the runners of a sleigh, made of metal or These runners are deeper in front and run back to the rear in diminished depth, as shownin dotted lines. They are braced and held together parallel by the cross-bars B B B B 0 is the cutter. This is a bar of metal, made in a widened V form, held at its angle 0 by a movable bolt or rod, D, to the crossbar B, and having its ends 0 0 turned up and secured to the inside of runners A by a bolt, so as to be movable up and down. This cutter has its front edge, 0 beveled off, forming a cuttingedge.

D D are the scrapers, attached at their rear ends, d d, to the rear ends, a a, of the runners, and the ends of cross-bar B and their front ends, 01 d, converging and attached to the crossbar B.

E E are the handles, like those of a plow, fastened to the scrapers and cross-bar B This device is pushed over the pavement or other place where the snow or ice is accumulated, and the cutter shaves it off, and the scrapers shove it off to both sides.

To hold the cutter at any angle the rod 1) has notches on one side and passes through a plate on top of cross-bar B, a spring, F, holding it in engagement with the plate. Any equivalent adjusting device may be used.

The scrapers, instead of being held rigidly,

may be held by a link in front and run loose between the rear ends of the side pieces.

What I claim is- 1. In a snow cutter and scraper, the combination of the pivoted rearwardly-inclined or V-shaped cutter with the forwardly-inclined or A-shaped scrapers 1) D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a snow cutter and scraper, the combination ofthe pivoted V-shaped cutter, inclined rearwardly, the notched rod D, connected to the apex of the cutter, spring F and bar B, and the A-shaped scraper D D, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN S. HOVEY,

Witnesses (inns. CARMICHAEL, JOHN S. BAKER. 

